Psalms 58
1 For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.
To the Overseer. — 'Destroy not.' — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
2 For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
11 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
And man saith: 'Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
